Apparently at some point during my efforts to both pack our bags and make sure that we had plenty of fully-charged batteries for my camera and our vide camera (they take the same batteries), I left the power cord for the video camera at home. This cord is not really needed when video taping, as [...]
I’ve completed the previous post, which was “to be continued…”.
Just after leaving the Forbidden City, Stephanie and I were standing in the square in front of the South gate (the one with Mao’s picture above it) when a couple of Chinese students asked us how we were doing…
If you haven’t heard of the tea ceremony scam, you should definitely read this.
Well, we finally got notification of our TA today in an e-mail at 11:01am. So that’s a big relief–one more check on the list. As you know if you’ve been following along, we were really hoping to get it yesterday because then we’d still have a chance to get our actual travel dates (based on [...]
All that stuff I wrote yesterday about being patient? Forget it.
I don’t know why, but today I’m pissed that we didn’t get our TA. I think part of it is that I really thought we’d get it today. Then to see all those other folks get theirs, and now we’re waiting until at least [...]
It’s been a while since I had time to post. Mostly I’ve been working. Working on the house (some bookshelves, hanging curtains and a new living room clock (a cool George Nelson “turbine” design that we got on sale as a closeout floor model at DWR), working on work stuff, and working on the website. [...]
No, I’m serious. She totally rulz. She’s at her yoga class right now, but before she left she mentioned that she “…wrote another blog entrytoday.” Which means that I get to post it tonight (I haven’t quite worked out the details on the workflow part of this website authoring “system” yet). Which means that I [...]
I think I hurt my dad’s feelings the other day. I knew I was going to but I did it anyway. Not that I intended to hurt his feelings, but I had to tell him something uncomfortable. I had to tell him that when we get home from China with Lina, and they come to [...]
Thursday, September first was an amazing day, but it didn’t start out auspiciously. I woke up early with a headache that got worse as I started to get ready for work. It wasn’t helped by the fact that I’d probably slept four hours the night before. Stephanie was in Ashland visiting her best friend Kerry, [...]